A native of Bournemouth, England, Mark has been a professional musician all his life. Studying at 8 years old with Chas Evans and later with prolific session great and BBC Radio Big Band drummer, Paul Brodie, Mark was playing gigs before he was a teenager, in every style of music imaginable. A career on the South Coast ensued cutting his teeth with a slew of British TV stars, playing jazz and big band, and his first hard rock recording session with Rich Bitch.